June 2008
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It’s like Twitter, only better. It’s easier to keep track of conversations and has a cool timeline UI. And, if you’re worried about having too many Social sites to keep up with or post to … try ping.fm for posting to multiple sites (use code “pingofpings” to join). If you want to check multiple sites at the same time, try Socialthing.
“A stranger was seated next to a little girl on the airplane when the stranger...”
– You can thank my mom for sending that one …
"Orgy" more popular than "Apple Pie"
This is taken straight from a slashdot article …
“Google Trends is being used in a novel way in a pornography trial in Florida. Under a 1973 Supreme Court ruling, ‘contemporary community standards’ may be used as a yardstick for judging material as unprotected obscenity. This is a very subjective judgment, and so Lawrence Walters, a defense lawyer for Clinton Raymond...
Aviary
Just got an invite for a “suite of web-based applications for people who create” … taken straight from their site: a.viary.com.
So what does that mean? I’m not completely sure. Right now it looks like it’s an online image editor and pattern maker. I think they’re going to have more apps eventually, like a video editor, typography apps, music apps, and even a 3D...
The setup
I was testing a new laptop at work. We had an update to our Windows XP image and as one of the developers, I have to test all my apps to make sure they still work. The image is fine, so I decided to upgrade!
I’m keeping the laptop and migrating all my stuff to this machine. My old laptop was getting bogged down and running out of drive space. Rather than clean it up, I’m just pulling...
tj 2.0
In an attempt to get my online life more organized, I evaluated what I expected to get out of my “social” experience. In order to do this, I looked at quite a few different tools:
Twitter
Pownce
Plurk
FriendFeed
Jaiku
Facebook
MySpace
Y! Mash (can’t find my link)
BrightKite
There may have been a few others I’ve tried over the past few months, but these are...
My Little Helpers
My kids are with me at work today. We’re picking up my parents from the airport this afternoon, so I dragged them with me to work.
So far they’ve been pretty good. Keeping themselves busy with stuff they brought and toys I have in my office.
We just got back from lunch, so maybe they’ll have full bellies and take a nap. Just kidding, my kids wouldn’t take a nap if I...
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Father's Day recap
What a day! My family really spoiled me yesterday, and it was NICE.
I got to sleep in, then played video games for a couple hours while my wife made my favorite (French Toast) for breakfast. After some more video game playing, we finally got ready to head out to the mall.
We went to Tyson’s Corner (huge mall in this area). My wife went to have her hair done while the kids and I played in...
Alive and Tired
My son’s birthday party was today. His actual birthday isn’t for a couple weeks, but we decided to throw his party early this year so his friends weren’t all on summer vacation.
We had ten 7-year-olds in the house … talk about energy! It was a dinosaur themed party complete with digging for dinosaur bones, a relay race to get dressed in “digging” clothes, a...
Politics is rough
My daughter ran for Treasurer of the Student Council for next year. She was up against two other girls, both of whom are very popular One’s mother is a teacher at the school. The election was today.
It was a tie between the two other girls. So, they’re co-Treasurers. Fortunately, everybody who ran still has a place on the Council, so my daughter is a representative. It’s not...
Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
This song is...
Coming to my senses
So, it’s only taken me a few hours (and reading TONS of previews and analyses) to come to my senses about the 3G iPhone. Here’s why I’ll wait a while before upgrading (if I upgrade at all):
AT&T data plan is $10 more per month … now $30/month for 3G. That’s $240 more for the life of the contract.
Most of the upgrades are actually in the firmware … which...
Damn you, Apple.
I bought an iPhone last October. Wanted one since they rolled out, but I waited until after the price drop … mostly because I’d never spent much on a cell phone before and wasn’t about to start. Although I still spent several hundred dollars on the phone, I have to say I’ve never been happier with a device. It really does about everything I want in a device.
Well, as I...
Four More Years! Four More Years! →
WatchAnybody remember the movie “The Naked Gun”? Well, somebody’s remade the intro to the movie for Grand Theft Auto IV. Tee Hee!
Firefox 3
Firefox 3 will be making it’s debut sometime this month! I’ve played around with the release candidate a bit and am really liking it. There were a couple plugins I have installed that didn’t work in FF3, but I imagine it won’t take long for the developers to get with the program and make it compatible.
The Firefox people (Firefoxians?) want to set a Guinness World Record...
Everybody was Kung Fu fighting!
We just got back from “Kung Fu Panda”. Quick review: Awesome flick.
Long review: Voice acting is perfect. Animation is cartoon-y, but just right for the story. Action was heart-pounding. Story was captivating. Jokes were hilarious.
My head still hurts from laughing so hard. I’m no fan-boy, but I like Jack Black. He was born to be a Panda. The problem with Jack Black is that he...
Plurk →
If you’ve at all played with twitter, then you need to sign up for plurk. It’s cooler. The interface is a little more complex than twitter, but it’s much easier to follow what’s going on. Plus, you can comment to specific “plurks” … I get lost trying to follow the bazillion conversations on twitter.
So, if you want to sign up for a Plurk account, click...
I'll Get You, My Pretty!
We have a pest, and his name is squirrel. We added a bird feeder to our newly redesigned backyard. The birds love it … cardinals, blue jays, finches, doves, etc. Problem is, squirrels love it too.
I used to chase them away whenever I’d see them. But they came back. Then I started hitting the tree with a stick to scare them. But they came back. Then I started throwing rocks at them....
Top Gear
I’ve recently been turned onto a British TV show called “Top Gear”. Apparently it’s also a magazine in England, and the show’s been on for ages. Too bad I’ve missed out for so long!
It’s a show all about cars. These three friends focus on different cars every episode. But, they have a twist. For instance, the episode I watched last night was a race across...
An Omen?
Wearing my favorite shirt this morning … out walking the dog … bird shits on my shirt. WTF?
Please say this isn’t an indicator of what the day is going to be like … please?